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Preservation Hall Foundation Inc

Preservation hall foundation protects, preserves, and perpetuates new orleans music through engaging and supporting musicians; providing support and services to elder members of our collective; conserving and sharing jazz music archives and spaces; providing educational experiences for students, families and the general public; and…

$321k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2025
$26k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$17,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$9.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Preservation Hall Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$26k0%
FY20214$39k50%
FY20203$29k100%
FY20192$19k50%
FY20182$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Public Safety & Disaster$68kInternational$38kArts & Culture$500Crime & Legal$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kanpe Foundation Inc$38,0602n/a
Drummer Boy Joe LLC$32,7502n/a
Young Tuxedo Brass Band$28,2503n/a
Clive H Wilson Ltd$17,3502n/a
Lastie Productions$10,1001n/a
Johnson Productions LLC$5,5501n/a
Fair Fight Initiative Inc$10010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($500), not named here.

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About Preservation Hall Foundation Inc

How much does Preservation Hall Foundation Inc give?
Preservation Hall Foundation Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $26,000, out of $321,021 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Preservation Hall Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (64%), International (36%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Preservation Hall Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Kanpe Foundation Inc ($38k), Drummer Boy Joe LLC ($33k), Young Tuxedo Brass Band ($28k).
Does Preservation Hall Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Preservation Hall Foundation Inc based?
Preservation Hall Foundation Inc is based in LA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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